SPAC: The 2014 Pop/Rock Season

Jack Johnson (photo by Stanley Johnson)

Photograph by Stanley Johnson

Hmmmm…

Is it just a coincidence that the band that played on the final day of the 2013 Saratoga Performing Arts Center season returns to kick off SPAC’s 2014 concert calendar? Has that ever happened before? Don’t think so, but it’s happening with Jack Johnson, who shared the spotlight at Farm Aid with Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and lots of others last September.

Yes, Johnson is headed back to SPAC on Saturday (May 24) with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes to launch the Saratoga Springs amphitheater’s 2014 string of two dozen (so far) pop/rock shows that run from the weekends of Memorial Day to Labor Day – which pretty much defines summer around Nippertown.

As expected, the line-up leans toward the classic rock and country end of the musical spectrum, but the burning question of the SPAC summer just might be, “What will CeeLo Green wear?”

Here’s the complete SPAC schedule of pop/rock shows as of today (Friday, May 23):